Halloween Games for Kids

Are you planning to host a Halloween party for your little ones and their friends this year?  Here are some fun party game ideas to keep the your guests entertained.

1)  Monster Freeze Dance - Fun way for the kids to stay active and to teach them listening skills.  Put on the Monster Mash and have the kids dance around until the music turns off.  Once off kids must stand as they are until the music goes back on.  Entertaining and a little less hectic than musical chairs.

2)  Snap Apple - Back in the day bobbing for apples was the craze but that can get pretty messy and ruin a really good face paint.  So instead hang an apple (with stem) from a string (use curtain rod or tree branch outside) and have kids try to take a bite out of it while it swings.

3)  Skeleton Scavenger Hunt - Have kids roam the yard or the house on the hunt for skeleton parts (cut from paper, or plastic ones purchased from a toy store or craft shop). For an extra challenge, see if the party guests can reassemble their bony treasures into a complete skeleton set.

4)  Dress the Mummy - Split the party guests into groups no smaller than two and give them a substantial supply of toilet paper. The object of the game is to try and turn one of the group into a mummy by wrapping them entirely in the loo roll! Prizes go to the quickest or the best attempt.

5)  Pass the Pumpkin - A fun way to give pass-the-parcel a Halloween twist, this is played in the same way but you should fill the pumpkin so that each time the music stops whoever has the pumpkin at that time can select a goody from inside.
At the very end, when everyone has had a turn, a random lucky winner gets the pumpkin and the remaining goodies left inside.

What other fun Halloween games can you add to the list?

 

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Fun games to play while walking to school

Walking our kids to school is a great way to stay in shape but how do you make the walk fun for all?  Playing games with your kids during the walk can make a long walk seem short and can even help our little one's keep warm on those colder mornings.  It is also a great way to start the lessons for the day.  Here are some fun games that you can play.

1)      Eye Spy – this is a fun one for kids of all ages.  It is also a great game for preschoolers learning their colours.  This is especially fun during holidays when people decorate their homes.

2)      Counting steps – This is a great way to teach your little ones how to count and it can be fun to see if you can beat how many steps you took the day before.

3)      Calling out the colours of the cars and trucks passing by.

4)      Monkey See, Monkey Do – Have your child perform an action and then you copy it.

5)      Simon Says

6)      Go through the alphabet and see if you can pick out items along the route that start with that letter.
 
7)      Red Light, Green Light

What games do you play with your kids walking to and from school?

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